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| subject: | Re: Thanks for the help (Mandrake 9) |
From: Egan Orion Did you select 3-D Acceleration? That will diminish the highest resolution available. Also, you might have to settle for 16bpp. Egan Bodi wrote: > Thanks to all that offered ideas! > > I tried editing the X11 config file, no joy - the stuff I tried changing > didn't work, and there are a lot of lines of numbers that I can't tell what > they are doing. > > I tried the cdrom boot image, and was looking for what was causing the > failure (bad floppy drive?) before I read Martin's post about the possible > bad image ... what's a BADZ5 by the way?? > > After the floppy failed to work, I updated the bios and after that the CD > boot worked fine. I'm at 800x600 which looks crappy, I plan on another pass > to try out some different refresh rates at 1024x768. I presse "OK" after the > 800x600, I expected to be able to try a few more but the installer just > proceeds from there. ctrl-alt-+ will reduce the resolution but not increase > it now. > > Thanks again, > Dave (still learning) > > -- > > /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . > \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > X NO HTML/RTF in e-mail or usenet! > / \ NO Word docs in e-mail! > > My reply-to address is a spam trap. > Change "deadspam" to "hotmail" to reply personally. > > Deadspam.com provides free non-bouncing email traps... > Get yours today! > > --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/1.45) SEEN-BY: 3/2 10 106/1 120/544 123/500 379/1 633/260 267 270 285 774/0 605 SEEN-BY: 2432/200 7105/1 @PATH: 379/1 106/1 123/500 774/605 633/260 285 |
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